02-15-2005, 12:26 AM
I like the mounted hub greese fittings.
they allow me to change the grease with out having to take off the wheels and barrings.
Every couple hundred miles or every thirty days you give the hub greese fiting a couple shots of greese till you see it come out clean on the back side of the hub, you know you are good.
NOTE this dose not mean that you dont have to do a yearly check on the bearings, it just gives you aditional assurance that your hubs wont heat up and fall of on long trips. (I cary my greese gun with me on my trips) I dont like to take chances.
if you go with an oil fitting be sure to stop on intervals to check to see if your hubs are heating up, if they do the barrings will expand and contract and eventualy will loose its ability to hold the wheel on the hub. (I have seen this picture on the side of the road at least a dozen time in the past few years.)
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they allow me to change the grease with out having to take off the wheels and barrings.
Every couple hundred miles or every thirty days you give the hub greese fiting a couple shots of greese till you see it come out clean on the back side of the hub, you know you are good.
NOTE this dose not mean that you dont have to do a yearly check on the bearings, it just gives you aditional assurance that your hubs wont heat up and fall of on long trips. (I cary my greese gun with me on my trips) I dont like to take chances.
if you go with an oil fitting be sure to stop on intervals to check to see if your hubs are heating up, if they do the barrings will expand and contract and eventualy will loose its ability to hold the wheel on the hub. (I have seen this picture on the side of the road at least a dozen time in the past few years.)
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